Gaylord Apartments

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207-foot, 20-story modernist cooperative-apartment building completed in 1959. Designed by Boak & Raad, it is clad in red brick with a black granite water table. The main entrance is centered on the south facade, set in a section of light-grey granite. It has glass double-doors below a peaked, light-grey canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. To either side are pairs of stone pillars supporting a stainless-steel canopy that spans the width of the entry area, with landscaping in front. In between the west pair of pillars is a 2x2 arrangement of four small horizontal windows, with another pair of such windows between the eastern pillars. The granite section extends a bit to the east as well, where there is a steel service door. Farther to the west the ground floor has a band with a double-window and a triple-window joined by a black granite panel. At the west end is a slightly-projecting 1-story section with a plate-glass window and an entrance to the underground parking garage.

The east end of the south facade is set slightly forward, and has two bays of triple-windows flanking a single-window bay on the upper floors. This section sets back above the 14th floor. To the west, above the grey granite section, there are four bays of triple-windows, with the western two setting back above the 14th floor, and the eastern two setting back above the 16th floor. Continuing west there is a small step-back, and a bay of double-windows and a bay of triple-windows (with a single-window in the short, west-facing sidewall of the step-back). At the 11th floor the west end of this section angles back, with an additional window in the corner facet. The 12th floor has a single-window and a double-window here, and then a setback. The west end bay is also slightly stepped-back, and has a triple-window bay, setting back above the 12th floor. All of the triple-windows have metal vents below them. The top floors have a couple more setbacks, creating a series of terraces at the top of the building.

The east facade on the avenue has commercial plate-glass windows on the ground floor, along with sections of light-grey or black granite. The entire ground floor along this facade is capped by a thick band of white stone scored into a pattern of three rows of squares. The upper floors have four bays of triple-windows at the north end, with the northern two spaced closer together, and then a double-window, and two single-window bays. The north and south ends set back above the 14th floor, while the southern two triple-window bays set back above the 16th floor.

The north elevation above the neighboring low-rises has four single-windows in the middle of the facade, the outer two slightly smaller. The building was converted to a co-op in 1980, with 190 apartments. The ground floor is occupied by a CVS Pharmacy.